Marco Antonio Barrera
Mexican boxer
マルコ・アントニオ・バレラ
- Born
- 17 January 1974, Mexico City
- Citizenship
- Mexico
- Sport
- boxing
- Discipline
- lightweight, super featherweight, featherweight, super bantamweight
- Occupation
- boxer
- Height
- 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)
- Recorded fight record
- 67 wins, 7 losses
Marco Antonio Barrera Tapia (born January 17, 1974) is a Mexican former professional boxer who competed from 1989 to 2011. He held multiple world championships in three weight classes between 1995 and 2007, from super bantamweight to super featherweight.
After a brief retirement after losing twice to Junior Jones, Barrera revived his career with a trilogy against Erik Morales and a win against Naseem Hamed, earning him the Ring magazine featherweight title. He lost this title in his first fight against Manny Pacquiao. BoxRec currently ranks Barrera 55th in its list of the greatest boxers of all time, pound for pound, while ESPN ranked Barrera as 43rd on their list of the 50 greatest boxers of all time. He was inducted into the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 2017.
Awards and honours
- Ali–Frazier Award 2004
- The Ring magazine Comeback of the Year 2004
- International Boxing Hall of Fame 2017
- IBF World Junior Lightweight Champion
- IBO World Featherweight Champion
- The Ring World Featherweight Champion
- WBC World Featherweight Champion
- WBC World Super Featherweight Champion
- WBO World Junior Featherweight Champion
External links
Facts from Wikidata Q732316 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.